Young Writer

The Theme is Wonderful Water

This National Young Writer Competition is a well-established and successful competition promoted by Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RotaryGBI).  It is a three-stage competition, designed to support and encourage the development of writing skills.

The Competition aims to encourage young people to:

• Use their writing skills.
• Write with imagination and creativity.

The ‘THEME’ for 2024-2025 is ‘Wonderful  Water’.  This is a chance to be imaginative and produce a written or typed story in prose entitled ‘Beautiful Water’. The written entry can be fiction or non-fiction, a story or a poem, as long as the piece relates to the theme. An A4 Page or up to 500 Words is a suggested suitable submission. 

The Competition is open to all young people and often coordinated thorough schools and college communities including those that are home educated and any other young peoples’ community organisations, for example, community RotaKids, community Interact, Scout Groups and Girl Guides.

The three age groups are: Junior 7 to 10 years old; Intermediate 11 to 13 years old and Senior 14 to 17 years old.  Entrants must not be above the age parameters for each group on 31st August 2024.

Key Dates:

• 1st February 2025 : Closing date for  Entries from Schools and clubs  to sponsoring Rotary  Clubs for initial selection . 
• 1st February 2025 : Closing date for entries from Individuals not linked to Rotary clubs to Anthony Chick for initial selection.
• 1st  March 2025 :  Closing date for selected entries from Clubs to the District Organiser. 
• 30th April 2025: closing date for Entries from the District Organiser to the Rotary GB&I National Organiser.     

The winners are announced in May 2025

For further details contact your local Rotary Club or Young Writer Lead in Cumbria & Lancashire Pam Holgate using the Contact Form below.

Rotary Clubs can download Information Packs, posters and logos by logging into the RotaryGBI website using their personal My Rotary account.